2020 tornadoes in Mississippi

88 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2020, 134 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 12 people and injured 117. 3 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2019 2021 The whole country in 2020

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Mississippi in 2020

January 11 17 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
January 11	3:48 AM CST	EF2	Bolivar	23.4	1,800	4	$3.0 million
January 11	4:02 AM CST	EF1	Bolivar	4.2	880		$350,000
January 11	4:07 AM CST	EF1	Bolivar	2.5	270		$50,000
January 11	4:18 AM CST	EF2	Sunflower	5.5	1,700		$700,000
January 11	4:19 AM CST	EF2	Sunflower	5.4	850		$80,000
January 11	4:26 AM CST	EF0	Tallahatchie	2.2	100		$50,000
January 11	4:42 AM CST	EF1	Tate	11.3	200		$610,000
January 11	4:45 AM CST	EF1	Quitman	5.7	150	1	$350,000
January 11	4:53 AM CST	EF2	DeSoto	8.2	300		$2.6 million
January 11	5:04 AM CST	EF0	Panola	7.3	150		$110,000
January 11	5:21 AM CST	EF0	Marshall	5.8	70	1	$25,000
January 11	6:45 AM CST	EF1	Prentiss	7.2	100		$200,000
January 11	6:56 AM CST	EF1	Prentiss	8.2	150		$75,000
January 11	7:08 AM CST	EF1	Tishomingo	5.7	120		$90,000
January 11	7:17 AM CST	EF0	Tishomingo	0.7	80		$25,000
January 11	9:33 AM CST	EF0	Scott	3.0	250		$30,000
January 11	10:33 AM CST	Unrated	Hancock	2.2	30

February 5 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
February 5	2:57 PM CST	EF1	Simpson	6.2	150		$200,000
February 5	3:20 PM CST	EF2	Smith	2.6	440		$20,000
February 5	3:28 PM CST	EF1	Yazoo	8.1	800		$45,000
February 5	3:57 PM CST	EF2	Yazoo	18.7	900	4	$126,000
February 5	4:46 PM CST	EF1	Attala	1.7	300		$50,000
February 5	4:58 PM CST	EF2	Attala	5.8	800		$255,000
February 5	5:33 PM CST	EF1	Leake	9.1	250		$55,000
February 5	5:50 PM CST	EF1	Leake	4.9	150		$40,000
February 5	10:51 PM CST	EF2	Jasper	59.9	1,320		$3.9 million

February 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 10	6:08 PM CST	EF1	Greene	1.2	200
February 10	8:51 PM CST	EF1	Hinds	2.9	300			$23,000

March 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 4	4:39 AM CST	EF0	Jefferson Davis	9.3	400			$26,000

March 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 24	5:27 PM CDT	EF1	Tishomingo to AL	16.9	400			$1.5 million

March 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	9:30 AM CDT	EF1	George	8.2	50

April 12 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 12	1:00 PM CDT	EF1	Sharkey	6.0	200			$15,000
April 12	1:17 PM CDT	EF1	Humphreys	4.1	440			$50,000
April 12	1:22 PM CDT	EF2	Yazoo	7.4	250			$150,000
April 12	1:46 PM CDT	EF0	Holmes	2.3	50			$40,000
April 12	2:06 PM CDT	EF1	Attala	2.5	500			$35,000
April 12	2:47 PM CDT	EF0	Choctaw	3.0	150			$9,000
April 12	3:30 PM CDT	EF2	Noxubee	8.5	1,100			$150,000
April 12	3:38 PM CDT	EF4	Hope–Bassfield tornado	22.1	1,936	4	3	$2.8 million
April 12	3:42 PM CDT	EF1	Noxubee	3.9	375			$20,000
April 12	4:12 PM CDT	EF4	Bassfield–Soso tornado	67.4	3,960	7	98	$62 million
April 12	4:36 PM CDT	EF3	Lawrence	83.2	2,041		2	$18 million
April 12	5:22 PM CDT	EF2	Clarke	14.3	300		2	$250,000
April 12	5:47 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	2.9	300			$50,000
April 12	6:10 PM CDT	EF1	Jasper	8.9	985			$30,000

April 19 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	7:09 PM CDT	EF4	Sandy Hook–Camp Shelby tornado	53.8	2,275	1	1	$700,000
April 19	9:50 PM CDT	EF1	Pearl River	4.4	75
April 19	10:28 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	1.8	25
April 19	10:47 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.5	10
April 19	10:53 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	2.0	150

April 23 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 23	1:57 AM CDT	EF0	Rankin	11.4	1,230		$30,000
April 23	3:04 AM CDT	EF2	Pike	20.0	700
April 23	3:20 AM CDT	EF2	Pike	6.8	700		$100,000
April 23	3:57 AM CDT	EF0	Marion	6.5	200		$20,000
April 23	4:14 AM CDT	EF2	Jones	16.9	2,640		$300,000
April 23	4:33 AM CDT	EF1	Wayne	1.8	350
April 23	6:17 AM CDT	EF1	George	2.3	200
April 23	6:23 AM CDT	EF1	George	0.4	50
April 23	6:24 AM CDT	EF1	George	1.4	250	1

June 24 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 24	7:20 AM CDT	EF1	Walthall	6.1	150	$5,000
June 24	7:35 AM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.4	50	$12,000
June 24	12:26 PM CDT	EF0	Harrison	3.0	50	$20,000
June 24	12:41 PM CDT	EF1	Harrison	2.7	75	$20,000
June 24	12:57 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.8	25
June 24	1:00 PM CDT	EF1	George	1.3	50
June 24	1:14 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	2.7	25
June 24	1:19 PM CDT	EF0	George	1.0	50
June 24	1:22 PM CDT	EF1	George	0.9	50

July 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 14	3:24 PM CDT	EF0	Hancock	0.3	25			$8,000

August 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 28	6:33 AM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	1.1	50

October 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 9	4:34 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	0.7	100			$2,000

October 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 28	1:05 AM CDT	EF0	Harrison	2.9	25
October 28	6:09 PM CDT	EF1	Noxubee	5.0	150			$30,000

November 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 25	7:21 AM CST	EF1	Hinds	0.7	175			$10,000

November 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 27	2:56 PM CST	EF1	Pike	4.2	50

December 23 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 23	10:26 PM CST	EF0	Yazoo	0.7	50	$5,000
December 23	10:40 PM CST	EF0	Madison	0.9	50	$5,000
December 23	11:17 PM CST	EF1	Franklin	1.1	150	$7,000
December 23	11:24 PM CST	EF1	Franklin	5.1	250	$15,000
December 23	11:31 PM CST	EF0	Lincoln	1.7	200	$12,000
December 23	11:36 PM CST	EF0	Lincoln	3.4	100	$10,000
December 23	11:41 PM CST	EF0	Lincoln	4.1	150	$18,000
December 23	11:51 PM CST	EF1	Lincoln	1.9	880	$12,000

December 24 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 24	12:25 AM CST	EF0	Jefferson Davis	2.0	400	$30,000
December 24	1:02 AM CST	EF1	Covington	3.3	100	$18,000
December 24	1:07 AM CST	EF0	Smith	3.4	50	$15,000
December 24	1:17 AM CST	EF0	Jasper	2.7	25	$10,000
December 24	1:26 AM CST	EF1	Jasper	3.9	550	$100,000

Crossed into Mississippi

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Mississippi. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 11	3:33 AM CST	EF2	Chicot, AR to MS	17.7	850		1	$1.1 million

Nearby

Every tornado in Mississippi since 1950 Warnings in force in Mississippi The live radar over Mississippi

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.